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Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism have long been studied separately. Yet, scholars are becoming ever more aware of the need to merge them into a single field of Jewish Studies. This volume opens new perspectives and bridges traditional gaps. The authors are not simply contributing to their respective fields of Sephardic or Ashkenazic Studies. Rather, they all include both Sephardic and Ashkenazic perspectives as they reflect on different aspect...

Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld: Masters, Maids and Mistresses. Aspects of Domestic Life among the Portuguese Jews in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic | Tanja Zakrzewski: Conversos und Moriscos. Zur Möglichkeit einer Verflechtungsgeschichte | Sina Rauschenbach: Jewish Universalism? Menasseh ben Israel's Final Remarks on History and the End of Times | Michael Studemund-Halévy: Epitaphs in Blood | Katja Wolgast: "At one time I spoke and wrote again...

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars interested in Hebrew studies and negotiated with Oliver Cromwell and Parliament the return of the Jews to England. Born to a family of former conversos, Menasseh was versed in Christian theology and astutely used this knowledge to adapt the content and tone of his p...

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) war einer der bekanntesten Rabbiner des frühneuzeitlichen Europa. Berühmtheit erlangte er vor allem durch die Verhandlungen, die er mit Oliver Cromwell über die Rückkehr der Juden nach England führte. Doch die Englandverhandlungen machten nur den letzten Schritt in einer Reihe von Vermittlungsbemühungen aus. Menasses ganzes Schreiben und Wirken war von dem Programm bestimmt, christlichen Gelehrten Wissen über da...

Josef Albo, Spanish Rabbi and Jewish Philosopher, writes his "Sefer ha-iqqarim" in the interval between the Tortosa Disputation and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The book is based on the ideas of Maimonides. In Early Modem Times it becomes an important source in Christian theological discussions.